Welcome! I’m at a point in my life where I do a lot of looking back and right now I’m thinking about how my most recent book, Leavings, is about how we live our lives not only in this moment, but also in the context of public and private moments of our past and of the future–what is left to us and for us and by us.
My “Quote of the Moment” is one whose language we’re fortunate in the 21st century to read as dated, but its observation of our interconnectedness is not and is, in fact, what I think is at the heart of Leavings and of much of my writing.
Readings and Writings
For the First and Last Word Poetry Series, I appeared with Mary Bonina and Mark Pawlak for this reading.
This is one I particularly treasure now that my friend Charles Coe is gone. I had the pleasure of reading with him, Mary Bonina, and Helena Minton at the historic Grolier Poetry Bookshop.
With thanks to Doug Holder, here is an email interview I did with him.
This is a reading I did for the First and Last Word poetry series with Neil Silberblatt and Elizabeth S. Wolf link.
And back when we weren’t going anywhere–remember that?– I did a reading for the Stockbridge (Massachusetts) Public Library . Here’s the link.
Poem of the moment
“The Intervening Day” we call it:
the day between his birthday and our
anniversary, between the beginning of
his days and the formal beginning of our
days together, between these two occasions
for cards and cakes, good wishes, celebrations,
this one day that has no ritual, just
an everyday day, a day we notice perhaps only
because it sits sandwiched between the two
momentous ones, a day when nothing further
is required than our simple gratitude for
one more ordinary day.
Books
Leavings
$18.00
Read more about Leavings here.
This Next Tenderness
$18.00
Read more about This Next Tenderness here.
Brightness Falls
$18.00
Read more about Brightness Falls here.
Container Gardening
$18.00
Read more about Container Gardening here.
Afterwords
$10.00
Read more about Afterwords here.
Quote of the moment
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. Albert Einstein
My photo on the home page is by James Dalsimer. The book trailer video is by A. Dalsimer. The cover of Afterwords was designed by Kate Misail and the cover painting is by Eric Sealine. The cover art on the other books is by Faith Hochberg (Container Gardening), Lora Brody (Brightness Falls), Laura Fischman (This Next Tenderness), and David Lloyd Brown (Leavings).
anniversary, between the beginning of
his days and the formal beginning of our
days together, between these two occasions
for cards and cakes, good wishes, celebrations,
this one day that has no ritual, just
an everyday day, a day we notice perhaps only
because it sits sandwiched between the two
momentous ones, a day when nothing further
is required than our simple gratitude for
one more ordinary day.
$18.00
Read more about Leavings here.
$18.00
Read more about This Next Tenderness here.
$18.00
Read more about Brightness Falls here.
$18.00
Read more about Container Gardening here.
$10.00
Read more about Afterwords here.